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No one is above the law ??
by News Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:51 am
"A president of the United States will never again rest comfortably in the belief that he or she can commit crimes with impunity."
With the indictment of Donald Trump by a New York state grand jury, a legal barrier has been broken. A maiden legal voyage has set sail. The most important takeaway is this: A president of the United States will never again rest comfortably in the belief that he or she can commit crimes with impunity. This is an important development for our republic.
Our nation has long suffered from the absence of accountability for presidential crimes. Most notably, President Gerald Ford decided that former President Richard Nixon should not be held accountable for his crimes in office. Ford claimed his decision was for the good of the country, to help the country heal. This reasoning always struck me, as a career prosecutor, as a cruel joke. In 30 years, I never once told crime victims that I was going to help them heal by declining to prosecute the perpetrators. Announcing that you are declining to prosecute crime in the name of healing is a perversion of justice.
With the indictment of Donald Trump by a New York state grand jury, a legal barrier has been broken. A maiden legal voyage has set sail. The most important takeaway is this: A president of the United States will never again rest comfortably in the belief that he or she can commit crimes with impunity. This is an important development for our republic.
Our nation has long suffered from the absence of accountability for presidential crimes. Most notably, President Gerald Ford decided that former President Richard Nixon should not be held accountable for his crimes in office. Ford claimed his decision was for the good of the country, to help the country heal. This reasoning always struck me, as a career prosecutor, as a cruel joke. In 30 years, I never once told crime victims that I was going to help them heal by declining to prosecute the perpetrators. Announcing that you are declining to prosecute crime in the name of healing is a perversion of justice.
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